GPSBabel 1.4.0 released!

Hello, Babel-Heads.

Version 1.3.6 has been a lovely version, with a quazillion people downloading it and successfully using it at the betas that that succeeded it.. While we developers have been somewhat quiet since its release, we're also getting somewhat tired of it the betas that have succeeded it. We've collected a pile of new shininess and are ready to unleash the world to it.

The change that most of you will notice first is that we've completely replaced the graphical user interface. So far in the project, we've had a different GUI for each operating system, each written in a completely different language. Khai Mong contributed a new GUI written in Qt that lets us all rally our efforts behind one code base for all the operating systems. It takes the best features from our previous OS/X and Windows versions and makes them available everywhere. Notably it offers a reasonable set of filters, can map data, knows device names, remembers previous settings, has automatic update checking, and more. It also lays infrastructure for language translations. We have German, Spanish,Russian French, Hungarian, and Italian in progress and are trying to make it easy for non-programmers if you want to help translate GPSBabel. You can see screen shots of some of the existing translations.

If you notice problems in the translations or discrepancies with the doc, please report them to the mailing lists.

Of course, we have a tradition of making a mind-numbing list of fixes available (and an even more comprehensive list of changes in the source tree
since we ARE an open source project...), so here's a list of highlights.